This tool is a slightly different approach to accounting for Process Mass Intensity (PMI) by focusing on waste. A joint effort by the IQ Consortium, ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable, and academic leaders, this Green Chemistry Innovation Scorecard web calculator illustrates how green chemistry and engineering innovation can reduce waste mass during bulk active pharmaceutical manufacture. The calculator uses a statistical analysis of 64 bulk active pharmaceutical manufacturing processes encompassing 703 steps across 12 companies to provide a relative process greenness score. This score may then be used as a means of making meaningful comparisons between different processes and their associated waste reductions.
Read the paper “Inspiring process innovation via an improved green manufacturing metric: iGAL”
View a Presentation about Useful Green Chemistry Metrics
Learn more about the iGAL 2.0 (Green Innovation Scorecard) and its contributions to UN SDG 12